Jo.gwillim

No I haven't ever used my Ashdown octaver. The chorus isn't easy to control either. It's easy to play with all the other nice sound options when I'm home, but when I'm at a band prac, and can actually hear how they sound in a live context a 3 or 4 band EQ is all I can really have time to fiddle with, and maybe a bit of gain. I'm not saying all those options are bad, I don't think they are, I'm just not clever enough to cope with them all.

I had to take mine apart to replace one of the flimsy little switches. Blackstar were really on the ball providing spares and the amp was really nicely made inside. I didn't keep it, not because it was bad, there was just too much scope for fiddling with the sound, I am such a fiddler!

Yes that is a great pity, BUT I've got lots of amps but this is the one I gravitate to because it can do so many things quite well: It's loud enough I like the compressor and distortion options and the valve emulation. I love the bluetooth so can stream band recordings from my phone and play along. Now I've trained myself not to keep fiddling with the effects its great. Thomann don't seem to be selling them any more so the price is climbing up.

Active ones are great, but I feel much more comfortable giging with a passive or an active with a passive bypass. Been caught out a few times, in the heat of the moment you blame everything else apart from the battery. Yes I know I should check it more often!

Well going totally ott why not have wireless charging like my phone with a charging station built into your guitar stand.

Alas no. Just a bass player with a broken collar bone feeling sorry for himself missing out on gigs with too much time on his hands.

Sorry 0.2nano grammes

Yep being a nerd i did actually work this out at 0.2pico grammes.

I've found the easiest thing is to just weigh the bass from time to time. As the battery charge gets used up it gets lighter. Only a fraction of a gramme but kitchen scales are good enough.

There's 2 great things you get on an acoustic guitar with a pickup that you never see on bass guitars: A battery level indication and tuner. Why are these guys things on acoustic guitars but not on basses?

It's usually worked for me except on my stingray special, I think there's some extra jiggery pokery in there.

That's my favourite thing to do as well. I spend far too long getting parts perfect rather than getting good enough fast.

I had a similar problem with a stingray special. It turned out that all pp3s don't have identical dimensions. The RS own brand fitted in the battery holder fine but didn't quite make contact. Intermittent enough to keep me guessing!